Comment by 🚀 stack
Re: "Approaching dystopia. How did we get here?"
Yes, the society is doubling down.
2025-12-03 · 5 months ago
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☕️ tenno-seremel · Dec 04 at 07:23:
@jprjr Interesting, considering we do say “so and so died” here, nobody says “X passed away” except in media. This is outside of USA, though. And I can speak only for what I heard and said myself, of course.
👻 darkghost · Dec 04 at 10:39:
I fortunately have limited experience with this. But the worst incident was also with all the subtly of an atom bomb. A close friend lost their teenager in a car accident. I was told by my friend via text "<child's name> died today" as a response to some inane thing I had sent.
In my experience it tends to vary based on who's delivering the news and who they're delivering it too.
Like if I'm telling people about my pet dying - I'm using terms like passed away, or we lost them, etc. If some random animal is hit by a car - it died.
If someone famous dies that I don't have any real connection to - I'm just going to say they died. But if it makes the news or obits etc, those are probably going to say passed away if it wasn't a surprise, or they'll probably just say "so and so was found dead" this morning if it is a surprise.
But I've also gotten a "my husband died today" text from a friend.
I guess it's kind of all over the place
👻 darkghost · Dec 04 at 13:51:
Each person manages such news different ways. I mean sugar coating it won't lessen it's impact. I had a lot to parse from such a simple statement because of the sheer magnitude of such news and things like "I'm dying" as a response to something hilarious or embarrassing.
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